Cancer

Jamie Reed: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the incidence of cancer was in each  (a) constituency,  (b) primary care trust area,  (c) hospital trust area,  (d) region and  (e) social demographic group in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
	 Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 December 2007:
	The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the incidence of cancer was in each (a) constituency, (b) primary care trust area, (c) hospitals trust area, (d) region and (e) social demographic group in the most recent period for which figures are available. I am replying in her absence. (171907)
	It is not possible to calculate incidence rates of cancer by (a) constituency and (c) hospitals trust area because the relevant populations are not available.
	Incidence rates of all cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer in England by (b) primary care trust area and (d) government office region for 2004, the latest year for which figures are available, are given in Tables 1 and 2 below. Figures for government office regions are also available on the National Statistics website at
	http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Productasp?vlnk=8843&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=272
	Incidence rates of all cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer in England and Wales by (e) social demographic group are not available. However, the latest incidence rates for the three main cancers (breast, lung and prostate), which make up around 40 per cent of all cancers, by (e) social demographic group are given in Table 3 below.
	
		
			  Table 1: Incidence rates( 1)  of all cancers( 2)  per 100,000 population, by primary care trust( 3)  and sex, England, 2004 
			   Males  Females 
			  Primary care trust   
			 England 480 454 
			
			 South Gloucestershire 633 534 
			 Havering 437 325 
			 Kingston 422 344 
			 Bromley 344 310 
			 Greenwich Teaching 407 342 
			 Barnet 348 302 
			 North East Lincolnshire 511 437 
			 Hillingdon 371 296 
			 Enfield 374 303 
			 Barking and Dagenham 412 274 
			 City and Hackney Teaching 412 286 
			 Tower Hamlets 388 334 
			 Newham 392 332 
			 Haringey Teaching 449 325 
			 Blackburn with Darwen 547 425 
			 Herefordshire 448 430 
			 Milton Keynes 642 495 
			 Newcastle 604 465 
			 North Tyneside 589 464 
			 Hartlepool 609 402 
			 North Tees 556 490 
			 North Lincolnshire 493 416 
			 Nottingham City 608 509 
			 Bassetlaw 460 531 
			 Plymouth Teaching 645 492 
			 Salford 529 441 
			 Stockport 574 438 
			 Portsmouth City Teaching 578 526 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 633 525 
			 Luton 401 335 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 402 272 
			 Rotherham 614 520 
			 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan 565 426 
			 Blackpool 641 517 
			 Bolton 532 438 
			 Ealing 343 289 
			 Hounslow 352 281 
			 Warrington 538 403 
			 Knowsley 712 539 
			 Oldham 566 422 
			 Calderdale 482 445 
			 Darlington 529 415 
			 Barnsley 553 439 
			 Bury 534 420 
			 Swindon 526 464 
			 Brent Teaching 346 287 
			 Harrow 317 289 
			 Camden 412 378 
			 Islington 454 318 
			 Croydon 399 327 
			 Gateshead 591 474 
			 South Tyneside 567 501 
			 Sunderland Teaching 564 495 
			 Middlesbrough 620 461 
			 Southampton City 598 477 
			 Medway 431 366 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 337 244 
			 Westminster 375 284 
			 Lambeth 445 363 
			 Southwark 423 347 
			 Lewisham 497 352 
			 Wandsworth 454 386 
			 Tameside and Glossop 548 436 
			 Brighton and Hove City 374 307 
			 South Birmingham 543 447 
			 Shropshire County 560 413 
			 Walsall Teaching 544 470 
			 Richmond and Twickenham 399 331 
			 Sutton and Merton 439 323 
			 North Somerset 622 511 
			 Coventry Teaching 526 438 
			 Telford and Wrekin 517 385 
			 Wolverhampton City 461 414 
			 Heart of Birmingham Teaching 493 345 
			 Leeds 562 453 
			 Kirklees 506 394 
			 Wakefield District 543 476 
			 Sheffield 547 457 
			 Doncaster 627 471 
			 Derbyshire County 544 455 
			 Derby City 566 454 
			 Nottinghamshire County 565 475 
			 Lincolnshire 559 449 
			 Redbridge 323 282 
			 Waltham Forest 323 262 
			 County Durham 535 450 
			 Cumbria 484 449 
			 North Lancashire 590 470 
			 Central Lancashire 574 426 
			 East Lancashire 537 456 
			 Sefton 632 458 
			 Wirral 498 390 
			 Liverpool 678 539 
			 Halton and St. Helens 589 456 
			 Western Cheshire 562 481 
			 Central and Eastern Cheshire 544 436 
			 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale 588 413 
			 Trafford 612 471 
			 Manchester 598 475 
			 North Yorkshire and York 550 426 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 536 440 
			 Hull 576 457 
			 Bradford and Airedale 515 427 
			 South East Essex 401 351 
			 Bedfordshire 379 363 
			 East and North Hertfordshire 416 321 
			 West Hertfordshire 294 259 
			 Surrey 356 332 
			 West Sussex 390 326 
			 East Sussex Downs and Weald 379 328 
			 Hastings and Rother 299 303 
			 West Kent 385 336 
			 Leicestershire County and Rutland 511 442 
			 Leicester City 469 411 
			 Northamptonshire 535 454 
			 Dudley 458 411 
			 Sandwell 465 367 
			 Birmingham East and North 571 410 
			 North Staffordshire 462 370 
			 Stoke on Trent 505 461 
			 South Staffordshire 520 422 
			 Worcestershire 543 456 
			 Warwickshire 528 432 
			 Peterborough 532 421 
			 Cambridgeshire 534 447 
			 Norfolk 516 446 
			 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 500 412 
			 Suffolk 553 418 
			 West Essex 385 281 
			 North East Essex 377 325 
			 Mid Essex 302 261 
			 South West Essex 394 296 
			 Eastern and Coastal Kent 419 335 
			 Hampshire 496 399 
			 Buckinghamshire 573 481 
			 Oxfordshire 591 480 
			 Berkshire West 577 453 
			 Berkshire East 576 458 
			 Gloucestershire 532 451 
			 Bristol 612 484 
			 Wiltshire 630 493 
			 Somerset 569 512 
			 Dorset 673 490 
			 Bournemouth and Poole 682 496 
			 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 569 490 
			 Devon 645 490 
			 Redcar and Cleveland 618 485 
			 Isle of Wight National Health Service 531 475 
			
			  Care Trust   
			 Northumberland 560 456 
			 Bexley 372 347 
			 Torbay 562 507 
			 Solihull 578 474 
			 (1) Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. (2) All cancers, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, are classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): C00-C97 excluding C44. (3) Boundaries as at 1 October 2006.  Source: Office for National Statistics. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Incidence rate( 1) of all cancers( 2)  per 100,000 population, by Government office region and sex, England, 2004 
			   Males  Females 
			 England 480 454 
			
			 North East 533 506 
			 North West 537 486 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 502 474 
			 East Midlands 499 492 
			 West Midlands 489 454 
			 East 456 426 
			 London 342 333 
			 South East 469 454 
			 South West 578 534 
			 (1) Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. (2) All cancers, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, are classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): C00-C97 excluding C44.  Source: Office for National Statistics (2004) 'Cancer Statistics: Registrations Series MB1' 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 3: Incidence rate( 1)  of selected cancers( 2)  per 100,000 by deprivation, England and Wales, 2002-04 average 
			   Breast  Prostate  Lung 
			  Deprivation quintile  Female  Male  Female  Male 
			 Q1 Least deprived 157 100 56 28 
			 Q2 152 96 70 34 
			 Q3 148 91 83 42 
			 Q4 141 85 99 53 
			 Q5 Most deprived 132 82 125 67 
			 (1) Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. (2) Cancers are classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10): prostate C61, Breast C50, Lung C33-34.  Source: Unpublished data from Rowan S (2007) 'Trends in cancer incidence by deprivation, England and Wales, 1990-2002' in Health Statistics Quarterly 36: 24-41.